Word For The Day - Lucubration

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[Red Badger]

................It’s FRIDAY!...................

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “Word for the Day”.

lu·cu·bra·tion

ˈˌlo͞ok(y)əˈbrāSHən/

noun - formal

lucubration:

study; meditation. example: "after sixteen years' lucubration he produced this account"

noun

1. laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.

2. the result of such activity, as a learned speech or dissertation.

3. Often, lucubrations. any literary effort, especially of a pretentious or solemn nature.

Origin:

late 16th century: from Latin lucubratio(n-), from the verb lucubrare (see lucubrate).

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day........

[Red Badger]

Class is in session!

Show us your lucubrations!....................

[Bogie]

Grease money for Andrew Cuomo?

[tioga]

Trump’s lucubration of the president
Is setting an American precedent
He puts America first
Making Dem’s heads burst
Fueling the liberal meltdown lament.

[faucetman]

KY

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Sounds like solitary vices.

[Red Badger]

That was fast! A+++!.........................

[Red Badger]

That would just be plain, old fashioned, lucre corruptions!............

[dblshot]

Out on the edges of this great nation
There seems to me a growing predation
Of fascist Antifa
Ignored by the law
And I can’t see why after much lubrication

[dblshot]

Dang spell checker, that’s not the WFTD.

[Red Badger]

lubrication?..................

[tioga]

LMAO

[Red Badger]

That’s lubrication!

Not Lucubration!.........

[moovova]

After much lucubration, I just couldn’t figure out a way to make this about Luca Brasi. Alas, poor Luca will remain sleeping with the fish.

[Red Badger]

A+...............I don’t know who he/she is...............

[Honorary Serb]

You mean it’s not “lubrication”? Surprise, surprise!!

Oh well, here I go:

Elizabeth Warren’s lucubrations produce nothing but hot air. no matter how much she lucubrates and lucubrates!!!!

[Red Badger]

A++!..............

[ConservativeMind]

After his lucubration, friction was no longer a concern.

[cschroe]

No need to lose sleep to extensive lucubration over how our RINO congressional leaders will manage to help President Trump enact his agenda, as once again we’ll just need lubrication because BOHICA.

[Red Badger]

A+!....................Friction with North Korea?............